Chapter: 2
Gliding Return
- A Fine Little Revival
- Jack London Loves Purple
- California: The New Frontier
- Beachboy Life
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Surf Shooting Down Under
- The Bronzed Islander Shows How
- Surfing in the Jazz Age
- Tom Blake Redesigns the Sport
- What Depression?
- When Clubbies Ruled Australia
- Surfboard as Woodcraft
- Palos Verdes Surfing Club
- San Onofre: the Nearest Faraway Place
- Riding the Hot Curl
- Enter Makaha
- Death at Waimea
- The Overwhelming North Shore
Surf Shooting Down Under
![Manly Surf Club, 1911](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/12f6fb2660ceff685ee8ff4a0569ec602d1af913-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Manly Surf Club, 1911
![Manly surf boat, 1908](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/a7c120f495b955c2077ba61ea940b884ecc08ca6-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Manly surf boat, 1908
![Coogee Beach, 1900](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/a903ef932f3d6d995921e4a180abea991b9c6981-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Coogee Beach, 1900
![Freddie Williams](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/810137e061094193b2685c1ecb7f15956784ca97-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Freddie Williams
![Alick Wickham, center](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/d77074ac478226e40bd422d995681bbbe928c85c-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Alick Wickham, center
While still a junior member among English-speaking nations, Australia proudly took the worldwide lead in beach safety—with hundreds of lifesaving rescues made each year—and the bronzed clubbie, with his rubber swim cap and tiny pectoral-hugging swimsuit, become the country's first iconic figure.
It must have dawned on Kahanamoku, at some point during his three-month stay in Australia in 1914 and 1915, that by dodging his own troubles he’d placed himself in the middle of a troubled nation. Halfway into a three-year drought, the country’s entire wheat crop had just failed. Gallipoli’s slaughtering toll on Australian infantrymen was still a few months in the future, but the Great War was und...
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